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   "text": "The de-skilling thesis, that new technologies invariably produce a smaller and less skilled workforce, is contradicted by research showing that firms often realize higher profitability when new technologies are entrusted to more skilled employees.",
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   "text": "Deploying AI does not by itself move workers toward higher value work: AI users spend more of their time on routine administrative tasks than on strategic activities, which points to a need to redesign work processes and job roles alongside the technology.",
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   "text": "Generative AI unlocks 2.6 to 4.4 trillion dollars in annual value by automating 60 to 70 percent of work activities and reallocating 45 percent of working hours.",
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   "text": "Against the abundance projections, the author records a tempering proposition: measured macroeconomic effects of AI remain modest, roughly a 0.7 percent productivity surge yielding 1.1 to 1.8 percent GDP growth over a decade, because frictions confine impact to about 5 percent of tasks while inequality widens for vulnerable demographics.",
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   "text": "Agent swarms are projected to deliver 20 to 30 percent productivity uplifts, but coordination failures loom in the absence of hybrid human and machine oversight.",
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